UNITED STATES v. SWEET, ADMINISTRATOR OF SWEET (1918)

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UNITED STATES v. SWEET, ADMINISTRATOR OF SWEET
Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: December 19, 1917
Decided: January 28, 1918
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. SWEET, ADMINISTRATOR OF SWEET is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 28, 1918. The case was argued before the court on December 19, 1917.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Utah U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 245 U.S. 563
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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